Football: The immortal legend on the green field

LeTV and Tencent jointly broadcast in the studio. Today, they invited Fan Zhiyi, who had just retired for more than a year, to partner with Huang Jianxiang: "Neeskens is a head coach who advocates the Dutch all-out attack and defense tactics."

"In order to implement his own tactical ideas, he made a series of tactical changes and lineup selections for Haarlem. With Shen Bin and Deng Zhuoxiang as the core, he rebuilt Haarlem in the hope of building a team capable of competing in the Eredivisie and the FA Cup."

"Ideals are full of hope, but reality is very skinny."

"Neeskens forgot that Haarlem is just a small club with only 27 players in the first team, including three players who are on the observation list for years. Unlike those giants who have more than 30 or even 40 players in order to cope with multi-line operations, the practice of expecting to have the best of both worlds with just two or three small players has been widely criticized by the European media. They will face the powerful Ajax in the next round of the FA Cup."

"Unlike PSV Eindhoven in the first round, they caught them off guard. Perhaps the result of defeating their opponent gave them confidence, but it won't be so easy after the strong team wakes up. Ajax has no desire in the league this season and they will focus all their energy on the FA Cup semi-final between the two teams in three days."

"Besides, no team that has made it to the semi-finals has any reason to give up. If they lose to Ajax in three days, Haarlem may get nothing this season. They have dropped to fifth place in the Eredivisie standings, four points behind SBV Elite, which is in third place. If they lose this game again, it will be difficult for them to catch up in the remaining ten league games."

Many Haarlem fans are dissatisfied with the current league ranking, but the club still adheres to Neeskens' coaching philosophy and believes that it is only one season and the head coach needs to be given enough time.

The top management of Haarlem SC is obviously very patient. After all, compared with the previous few seasons, the results of Haarlem SC have been greatly improved. In the previous few seasons, they always hovered in the middle and lower places and racked their brains for relegation from time to time. So the club wants to give Neeskens as much buffer space as possible.

"But the good news is that there are two young Chinese players among the SBV elite. In addition to the well-known Chen Tao, there is also a Chinese player named Dai Zhao who was recruited into the team during the winter break. Xiao Fan, do you know this player named Dai Zhao?"

Fan Zhiyi thought for a moment, "I really don't know this player, but I almost became his teammate when I was in Shenhua. At that time, Coach Wu valued this young player who was originally from Liaoning Youth Training. Coach Wu once told me that his playing style is very similar to mine. He was originally going to dig him over to replace me, but then Coach Wu resigned as head coach. For some reason, Shenhua gave up the transfer. I didn't expect to hear his name in the Netherlands two years later."

Compared to the previous game at the Venlo Stadium, the environment here is much better. The fans' seats in the stands are all plastic seats, and the stadium is not comparable to the bumpy grass in Venlo that was almost chewed by cows.

The commentator's voice came from the loudspeaker in the dome, and the surrounding fans were also cheering in unison, with even singing floating in the air.

These well-trained fans formed a sharp contrast with the miscellaneous fans of Venlo. At least in Shen Bin's opinion, their fans were all wide-eyed and at a loss, which was simply stupid.

The fans were like this, and the players of Haarlem Athletic were a little uncomfortable with the environment.

Amid the noisy scene and the enthusiastic cheers, although the back line of Haarlem Athletic was composed of veterans, they had not participated in a regular match for most of the season. They had not lacked match experience in the previous seasons, but they had always been playing in the second division league, where the largest stadium had less than 50 people, and most of the time, the attendance rate of the second division league was less than 5%. How could they have experienced playing in a giant stadium with people? The players of Haarlem Athletic, who had never seen a big scene, were obviously a little demoralized, and even showed some fear of fighting.

Two guys were so nervous that they put on their socks backwards and were sweating profusely.

Not far away, the camera was pointed at them, which made the players of Mostar Wanderers smile stiffly and awkwardly, and they didn't know where to put their hands.

"How stupid!"

Shen Bin shook his head. These guys’ psychological endurance was too weak. They were scared like this by such a scene. How could they play the game?

At this time, the players of Eindhoven Youth Team also began to enter the field to warm up.

"Wow!"

There were cheers coming from the scene, and the players of PSV Eindhoven Youth Team stood in a row and performed warm-up exercises in an orderly manner.

The neat clothes, strong body and confident expression undoubtedly give people a sense of toughness.

Even if these people are just substitutes for Eindhoven's substitutes.

Shen Bin saw Reuben in the opponent's lineup. Reuben, whose hairline had receded, was staring at him with the eyes of a hungry wolf.

Wasn't this guy already a starter in the first team? Why did he return to the youth team to participate in the second division league? Shen Bin just glanced at him and didn't pay much attention to him. Then, it was time to warm up.

At 7:30 in the evening, the Philips Stadium was full of spectators.

After the warm-up and back to the locker room, before each game, the coach would make some additional comments on tactics or say some encouraging words.

This game was a little special. Neeskens said nothing and the other coaches also kept their mouths shut. Neeskens was struggling internally. He hoped to win so as not to fall too far behind his promoted opponent, but he also didn't want to lose to Shen Bin tactically.

Shen Bin came to Neeskens and asked, "Don't you have anything to say?"

Neeskens stared into Shen Bin's eyes: "Don't you want to compete according to your ideas? If you lose, just shut up. If you win, maybe I will listen to your opinions more."

"Then it's settled."

Shen Bin's words embarrassed Neeskens and earned him a death stare.

The referee left the midfield and the game began.

After the Eindhoven youth team kicked off, Elmann started immediately and dived directly towards the ball.

This was Elman's first appearance this season. He was the first substitute last season. Due to the introduction of Korean Lee Dong-gook, his status has declined. In addition, Haarlem often plays with a single striker, so he has even fewer opportunities to play.

Seeing Elman running in the frontcourt, the PSV players were not nervous. After all, he was just one person and could not affect their passing at all.

The ball was constantly passed, and Elman was running and pressing.

The others retreated to their half court, waiting for the other side to press forward.

Neeskens wanted to see what he could do with a difficult player like Shen Bin.

Less than a minute after the start of the game, Neeskens discovered that the tactics arranged by Shen Bin were beyond his expectations.

Only Elman was left in the forward line. Howard moved back and became a front midfielder. Deng Zhuoxiang was squeezed to the left, and Sterling, who was originally the left midfielder, returned to his old position in the youth training camp - left back.

Berna Canu was the right back, while Al Barrow, Linke and Frans Lund lined up in the middle of the backcourt.

The defensive midfielder is Shen Bin, and Gular remains as right midfielder.

This is the standard "541".